BLACK LIPS
SEASON OF THE PEACH (CREAM)
Label: FIRE
Releasedatum: 19-09-2025
Herkomst: NL
Item-nr: 4789139
EAN: 0809236004123
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Recensie
LP - Limited Edition Cream Vinyl.
Weinig bands in 2025 belichamen de essentie van garagerock zoals the Black Lips dat doen. De band, bekend van waanzinnige live optredens en hun doe-het-zelf mentaliteit, klinkt 22 jaar na het verschijnen van hun eerste album nog steeds als een groep lol hebbende tieners. Maar vergis je niet, ze kunnen zeker spelen. Sterke melodieën, catchy teksten en afwisselende stijlen zorgen voor een plaat die je aandacht trekt. Season of the Peach staat vol met instant hits. (Nijs Flesseman)
Black Lips return with a brand-new studio album, Season Of The Peach, a 40-minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock meets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks. The 14-track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black Lips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.
The album is a musical merry-go-round, a journey featuring road-weary tales from the underbelly of a lights-out America. It’s bookended by “The Illusion” parts one and two: a barroom quest for hope, fear, and hate, thwarted at each turn by a sense of resignation, “you reach for the sky / but it’s an illusion.” Elsewhere, “Wild One” plays out like a Morricone romp through another day in Hell. A mantra for the hungover, a skin-crawling lament in praise of the wild at heart.
“Tippy Tongue” sees Black Lips take on 60s girl group soul, like The Shangri-Las and Ronettes infiltrated by Jayne/Wayne County, paying homage to Buddha Records. Meanwhile, “Kassandra” has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday, chiming its way through ever-spiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals. “Zulu Saints” is an upbeat country honk, a good-time brush with bravado, peppered with Cole on an incredulous radio phone-in show, looking for black-eyed peas and winning big on the slot machines.
For the recording sessions they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakley’s new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills (the first album recorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020). In this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape, part of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.
“Simply masters in their field” NME
“Dirty, raw and distinctly alive” Paste
“A wonderful new chapter” The Line Of Best Fit.
Tracklist:
A1. The Illusion Part Two
A2. Zulu Saints
A3. Sx Sx Sx Men
A4. Wild One
A5. So Far Gone
A6. Judas Pig
A7. Kassandra
B1. Baptism In The Death House
B2. Until We Meet Again
B3. Tippy Tongue
B4. Happy Place
B5. Prick
B6. Hatman
B7. The Illusion Part One
Weinig bands in 2025 belichamen de essentie van garagerock zoals the Black Lips dat doen. De band, bekend van waanzinnige live optredens en hun doe-het-zelf mentaliteit, klinkt 22 jaar na het verschijnen van hun eerste album nog steeds als een groep lol hebbende tieners. Maar vergis je niet, ze kunnen zeker spelen. Sterke melodieën, catchy teksten en afwisselende stijlen zorgen voor een plaat die je aandacht trekt. Season of the Peach staat vol met instant hits. (Nijs Flesseman)
Black Lips return with a brand-new studio album, Season Of The Peach, a 40-minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock meets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks. The 14-track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black Lips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.
The album is a musical merry-go-round, a journey featuring road-weary tales from the underbelly of a lights-out America. It’s bookended by “The Illusion” parts one and two: a barroom quest for hope, fear, and hate, thwarted at each turn by a sense of resignation, “you reach for the sky / but it’s an illusion.” Elsewhere, “Wild One” plays out like a Morricone romp through another day in Hell. A mantra for the hungover, a skin-crawling lament in praise of the wild at heart.
“Tippy Tongue” sees Black Lips take on 60s girl group soul, like The Shangri-Las and Ronettes infiltrated by Jayne/Wayne County, paying homage to Buddha Records. Meanwhile, “Kassandra” has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday, chiming its way through ever-spiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals. “Zulu Saints” is an upbeat country honk, a good-time brush with bravado, peppered with Cole on an incredulous radio phone-in show, looking for black-eyed peas and winning big on the slot machines.
For the recording sessions they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakley’s new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills (the first album recorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020). In this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape, part of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.
“Simply masters in their field” NME
“Dirty, raw and distinctly alive” Paste
“A wonderful new chapter” The Line Of Best Fit.
Tracklist:
A1. The Illusion Part Two
A2. Zulu Saints
A3. Sx Sx Sx Men
A4. Wild One
A5. So Far Gone
A6. Judas Pig
A7. Kassandra
B1. Baptism In The Death House
B2. Until We Meet Again
B3. Tippy Tongue
B4. Happy Place
B5. Prick
B6. Hatman
B7. The Illusion Part One
Tracks
Disc 1
1. The Illusion Part Two
2. Zulu Saints
3. Sx Sx Sx Men
4. Wild One
5. So Far Gone
6. Judas Pig
7. Kassandra
8. Baptism In The Death House
9. Until We Meet Again
10. Tippy Tongue
11. Happy Place
12. Prick
13. Hatman
14. The Illusion Part One
